Jean AKA Jeannie AKA Jeanie, is a film, book and magazine reviewer for a national magazine. Most of Jean’s work is done through e-mail, which means he does not have to go into the office.
On a trip to find a gift for his girlfriend, Jean found a empty Genie Bottle. Upon picking up this bottle Jean became the bottle’s new genie powered occupant. Not only was Jean turned into a genie, but the bottle turned him into what he believed a genie of the bottle to look like, which due to his fascination with a classic 60s TV show turned into a bust young Blonde female.

A junior engineer, who works for a small engineering firm in Cocoa Beach. The firm focuses mostly on NASA projects.Neil is Jean’s best friend. When Jean was turned into a genie, Neil somehow became Jean’s master.

Jeanie Bottle 249

—————————
If people are wondering who the guy in the life guard shack is, he was on a recent reality TV show called “Opposite Worlds”.
Though the show’s final episode aired last night, Wyatt (who is an actual Cocoa Beach Life Guard) was put into a challenge (and lost) on episode four.

I personally thought his team made a few foolish mistakes in their thinking and strategy. Would Wyatt had made it to the end? I don’t know, but he should have gotten farther then he did.

In any case, it seemed like a good time to give him cameo and pass on my thoughts.
-CD Rudd

I don’t think “MacGyver” was MacGyver. The MiBs referred to the actor as “from an old science fiction show” and “Captain Kirk.” And he’d been poofed in from a convention. Lots of Star Trek conventions; are there any MacGyver conventions?

Hmmm… I wonder if any nerdly conventions will be coming to Cocoa Beach? Sounds like a splendid excuse to bring back The Captain and the nerd crew from California.

Genie POOF!s use a font featuring flourishes inside the Os and the lower bar of the Fs. Whereas witchy *POOF!s have a slanty font, perhaps italic, a definitely italicized exclamation mark, and are always prefaced with an asterisk. How could the differences be clearer?

While I would love this idea (object transformation is one of my favorites TF types), I’m fairly certain that’s Neil talking to Wyatt. Since since Sam just bought a new swimsuit, she would have no need to turn her husband into one.

Doesn’t really look like Neil to me, but it is still wishful thinking. Jean might be a bit of a jerk when it comes to him, but I really don’t think she’s progressed to the point where she’d be comfortable with having him wrapped around her body like that. It is feasible she’d send swimsuit-Neil off to someone/somewhere else, though…

She can die once she runs out of cosmic juice, so technically she is mortal.
(Also technically, the Spawn is a Genie by these criteria.)
Apart from that little insignificant glaring weakness, a Genie seems to be much more powerful than a witch.

The only real reason to show the two lifeguards being ready & on duty at dawn (which no lifeguard of my acquaintance would consider any sort of civilized hour for people to be up, but plot) is that they will somehow become unwilling participants in the upcoming blow out.

How & in what way remains to be seen, but I sort of figured that there would be the guys standing in as seconds with various hijinks ensuing from that.

Two lifeguards? I see Wyatt and Neil, but I don’t think Neil has that profession. Also, surely a good number of people jog on the beach at dawn, and would like to see a lifeguard on duty in case a large wave suddenly swept over them.

Is that supposed to be the back of Neil’s head? There is nothing other than the tag, that I just noticed to indicate that. I would think that he would be more interested in what is going between Jean and Sam.

Well, we can deduce from their conversation that one of the two ladies just barely arrived. Perhaps Neil and Jeannie got there first, and Neil struck up a conversation with Wyatt while waiting for Sam?

I don’t think that’s Neil talking to the life guard. The hair color is wrong (morning light?) and Neil loves to wear green. If he wears a white shirt, it’s with a green tie. Besides, that fellow looks too, how shall I say, generic, like an extra. In the first panel, we have a view from the boardwalk. I think we’re seeing the “safe distance” the guys are keeping!

I vote for Neil as the most likely suspect. The guy talking to the lifeguard isn’t wearing swim trunks, so he’s not a lifeguard, or at least not on duty yet, and he’s wearing pants the same color as Neil was in the last episode–and, I think, in every episode where he wasn’t dressed for work. Plus, Neil thinks the “duel” is silly.

BTW, has anyone else noticed what might be one or two ships out on the horizon silhouetted by the rising sun?

This is making me think of the unfilmed original kill bill ending. Originally Bill and Bea were supposed to have their final showdown during sunrise on the beach. But genies and witches don’t use katanas so this will probably go a bit differently.